Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've arrived wearing a black suit with padded shoulders and a whole garden pinned to your lapel . |
| 2 | Developers who 've begun turning an old railway site into a multi-million pound housing , shops and offices complex , have promised that work will continue even though they 've put the development up for sale . |
| 3 | This month I 've suggested trying the various switches and breaking some of the rules . |
| 4 | It is also used to dress second degree burns ( blisters without skin loss ) once the blisters have broken leaving an open sore ( see Cuts and Scrapes ) . |
| 5 | We have compiled a register of the data we have received showing the purported performance of your local councils . |
| 6 | Some authors have reported finding a greater proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage among strongly , compared with weakly , sinistral subjects ( Satz , Achenbach and Fennell , 1967 ; Lishman and McMeekan , 1977 ; Geffen and Traub , 1979 ) although Dee ( 1971 ) reported the reverse . |
| 7 | There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse . |
| 8 | The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari , but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress . |
| 9 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 10 | When you have finished viewing the selected mail messages , you should press RETURN . |
| 11 | When you have finished viewing the selected mail messages , you should press RETURN . |
| 12 | ‘ We have begun unravelling the whole policy of deportation , ’ she said . |
| 13 | In recent years more people have begun using the judicial review process to challenge the performance of local authorities and other public bodies . |
| 14 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 15 | In an attempt to counter this , many North American teachers have begun making a conscious effort to help their young students ‘ develop ’ a child 's ‘ natural ’ curiosity about the world — not the TV world , but the actual world around them . |
| 16 | Moving away from the house we have suggested turning the whole paving pattern at an angle and this immediately sets up an interesting shape , away from the building and fences . |
| 17 | Attempts have been made to change the layout of the keyboard , but since millions of typists throughout the world have learnt using the QWERTY arrangement , resistance to change is considerable . |